Brett James Smith aka Brett J. Zagorac: DPS suing AZ Db Fingerprinting over approval accused child

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    Court documents from a DPS lawsuit cited a 2002 investigation report, claiming Zagorac rubbed a student’s back under his shirt while the rest of the class was watching a movie in a dark classroom at two different times. Landl said that student was her son. Police arrested Zagorac then on two counts of misdemeanor battery.


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    Brett Smith aka Brett Zagorac, former substitute teacher at Peifer Elementary School, Lake Central School Corporation, Schererville, Indiana, "inappropriately touching children"

    Recently working as:
    • Tutor in Phoenix, Arizona
    In 2005, charged with (and convicted?) molesting 13 children at elementary schools in:
    • Downers Grove, Illinois
    • Hinsdale, Illinois
    • Naperville, Illinois

    Indiana's teacher background checks system lacks safeguards

    Brett Zagorac, a Munster resident, is currently facing aggravated criminal sexual abuse charges in Willmette, Ill., for a 2014 incident involving a 9-year-old who he was tutoring at the child's home. But his record reveals multiple incidents while he was teaching at schools in Indiana and Illinois before his license was revoked. Zagorac served time for inappropriately touching two Schererville students in 2002. He pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor battery charge involving children in nine 2005 incidents involving students at schools in DuPage County, Ill., and he pleaded guilty to misdemeanor battery for inappropriately touching a 5-year-old child who he ...


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    DPS suing AZ Board of Fingerprinting over approval of accused child molester's card

    An accused child molester who has been arrested multiple times is now locked in a legal battle with the Arizona Department of Public Safety over a fingerprint clearance card that would allow him to work with kids. Court documents say the tutor, Brett Smith, was arrested at least 10 times in Indiana and Illinois before coming to Arizona and changed his name. "This is definitely him," says Col. Heston Silbert in an interview with KTAR's Mike Broomhead. "He admits it to being him.” DPS refuses to issue the card and is even suing the state’s fingerprinting board for granting it ...


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    DPS sues to ground Chandler tutor with shaky past

    State law enforcement officials are attempting to stop a Chandler teacher who has been arrested 10 times on suspicion of inappropriately touching children from being able to work in local schools. Arizona Department of Public Safety Director Heston Silbert filed a civil complaint in court on June 24 aimed at thwarting other state agencies from granting a fingerprint clearance card to 37-year-old Brett James Smith, who has been criminally convicted in other states for touching the backs of children. Smith, who changed his name from Brett Zagorac, had been tutoring children in the Chandler area and was waiting to receive ...


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    'I just want it to stop': First family reported Valley tutor to police nearly 20 years ago

    It’s been almost a week since self-employed tutor Brett Smith was arrested on fraud charges in Maricopa County, but there’s a lot more to his criminal history. The Arizona Attorney General’s Office is accusing him of legally changing his name to hide his past, which includes allegations of inappropriately touching children. The very first family to report him to the police reported him almost 20 years ago. "It was horrible," says Dawn Landl. Landl knew Brett Smith as Brett Zagorac, who records say was a substitute teacher at her fourth-grade son's elementary school in Indiana in 2002. 12 News first ...


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    Poor Mummy just doesn't understand:

    'This couldn't have come at a worst time in our lives," Elaine Zagorac said. "He was just helping the kids. I don't understand this at all."


    Substitute accused of inappropriately touching students: Former Lake Central employee's case to be decided by town judge

    18 November 2003


    The case of a 20-year-old Munster man accused of improperly touching two students at Peifer Elementary School was heard at trial Monday and has been taken under advisement. Schererville Town Court Judge Deborah Riga will issue a decision and notify both sides as quickly as possible, she said Monday. She has 30 days to make a decision. Brett Zagorac, 20, of 9436 Verbena Drive, was a substitute teacher when the incidents reportedly occurred last year at the school. He sat on one side of the court flanked by his attorney Jim Foster of Hammond-based Funk & Foster and his parents, ...


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    Brett Zagorac for student sex abuse, Naperville, 2005

    17 October 2005


    Authorities say a substitute teacher facing trial for sexually abusing one of his students in northwestern Indiana has been charged with molesting 13 other children at elementary schools in Naperville and Downers Grove. Brett Zagorac, 22, was held without bail Saturday in Lake County (Ind.) Jail, pending an appearance in DuPage County Circuit Court. He is accused of inappropriately touching or rubbing the backs of nine students at elementary schools in Naperville and four pupils at a school in Downers Grove.


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    Former substitute headed to jail: Teacher pleads guilty to inappropriate touching, gets 20-day sentence

    18 December 2007


    A former substitute teacher in Naperville will be spending this Christmas behind bars after being sentenced Monday for inappropriately touching a male student. Brett J. Zagorac, 24, of Munster, Ind., pleaded guilty in October to a misdemeanor battery charge in exchange for prosecutors dropping 25 similar counts stemming from at least 13 incidents involving DuPage County elementary school students. He taught in Naperville, Downers Grove and Hinsdale, authorities said. DuPage Associate Judge Cary Pierce sentenced Zagorac to 20 days in the county jail and two years probation in exchange for the guilty plea. He will have to spend at least ...


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